The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Jul. 22, 1946

As much Broadway landmarks as shows are Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle. Other highlights:

Annie Get Your Gun. Seeworthy musical with Ethel Merman as both rudder and sail (TIME, May 27).

Call Me Mister. Quondam G.I.s, male & female, celebrating their return to civilian life (TIME, April 29).

Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME, Feb. 18).

Show Boat. Still a captivating musicomedy, with probably the best loved of all musicomedy scores (TIME, Jan. 14).

State of the Union. Lively topical comedy of a straight-shooting would-be...

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